This is beautiful! Love your jam man! I'm at that level when I sit on my own, but then years go by and I feel I need to kill my old darlings because I've outgrown the lyrics :p
Hello! Please practice on a free or junk piano. No matter how "handy" you are it takes years to begin to understand how to properly tune a piano. End of story!!!
I actually wasn't sure which ones to put! The arrangement that I learned from is the Church-choir SATB arrangement with the female parts down an octave, but an all-male arrangement would have been BBTT or BBLT so I wasn't sure which was the correct labeling for my all male video of a SATB arrangement. PS I loved "Oh Pterosaur"! RU-vid must think we'd be friends lol
@@yersweekly4028: Yeah, I only call it "soprano" or "alto" when I'm singing in my girl voice (which does NOT sound convincingly feminine at all -- there's a reason I used a barbershop arrangement for O Pterosaur!). I'm kinda surprised that your church choir arrangement sounds as good as it does with the high parts down an octave like that!
@@yersweekly4028I would definitely consider it TLBB. You're basically remapping alto to baritone, and moving the melody below the tenor (mostly). I'm glad you did it this way. Unless you have a very strong falsetto that sounds like the female head voice, and the a very high range at that, actually singing SATB doesn't tend to sound as good. I also like your style here. It has a speaking quality, but still that musical resonance It reminds me of a jazz crooner. Though I'm curious about your pronunciation of _excelsis._
I've viewed a few of these piano tuning videos, and they're all good (I'm a tuner/tech). Just one thing I would just throw in to any of these talks is to mention the importance of piano placement in the home - i.e., when at all possible, never near a window or drafty area, as the constant temperature change will throw the tuning off fairly quickly.
A comment, simply because of all the piano tuners telling you a DIYer can't tune a piano. YES YOU CAN! But it does take practice and commitment. For someone who is 'mechanically' minded and tenacious (don't bother if you don't have both those qualities) you're not going to get a good result first go, but with each successive effort (supported by research to understand tuning hammer technique, which itself is a hotly debated issue) you will get there. It is absolutely essential you invest in a quality professional level tuning app such as PianoMeter. With that, and good hammer technique, plus the ability to tune unisons by ear (if you can tune a guitar by ear you are 90% of the way there) and a couple quality tools you will eventually be able to do a high quality job.
Starting to tune your own piano, not being a trained professional…….is a bit like doing your own amateur surgery. Yes….a knife can go in and slice into the body and get to where the problem may be……but knowing what you are doing and why is rather important, and may lead to some problems. I suggest employing a trained surgeon.
I’m a professional piano tuner and I can tell you that it took me a solid year of practise at college before I could even get a half decent tuning, and all done by ear only - long before the advent of digital tuning apps. After that it was another few years of getting better until now almost 40 years down the road I can tune a piano to sound excellent in a little over an hour. It was a long road and hundreds of pianos to get good so please don’t underestimate the difficulties that will face you - setting the pin on every note is also an art unto itself that requires skilled feel and practice. Good luck!
Forget it. A professional piano tuner exercises during four years for 30 minutes each day before even having the chance of obtaining the pro license. At least in Switzerland, where craftmanship in professions really means mastering the field of work, you learn for 4 years in order to get the license as a certified piano tuner. Not in order to hear the beats, because that even some amateurs can do if they listen carefully, but in order that the tone holds: It's in the handling of the hammer and the feel for the tension of the strings where the art lies. No amateur will ever get to that level with a DIY video. Yes, as an amateur one actually can tune a piano to a certain level (leaving apart the correct spreading ("Spreizung" in German). But it will never hold as good as a professionally tuned one. After a few weeks, it's a mess. Even worse: Once you start working badly on a piano, it will get out of tune even faster, and then faster and even faster until it is a hopeless case. So, if your piano means something for you: Do not experiment on your valuable instrument. Period.
Tune better then a professional? LMAO ! Good luck folks. Oh, and when you break that string then what? I guess you'll end up calling a real Piano Tuner. The piano is still out of tune at the end of the video by the way. You need to be able to tune a clean unison or a piano will never sound in tune!. If you do attempt to tune your own piano be carefull with broken strings, They can be dangerous.
Never owned a piano or played one. Just purchased a Kohler and Campbell console bought the tools need and tuned it perfectly with no issues. It took me a little while, but I got it done. Not everybody is a dumb ass. If it took you years to learn to be a so called professional to do a basic string tuning than maybe you should question your own IQ.
Zoomed-in Cookie Monster shirt is actually quite profound. // Such a great tutorial, and really a great introduction to the art of piano tuning. I am a note-to-color music theorist and and A-432 composer. Many people are tuning down to A-432 scientific pitch (from A-440) because of supposed healing and even vocal & singing benefits. The Acoustic Rabbit Hole encourages viewers to give this pitch-reference a try. (It's not quite 1/3 flatter than A-440 Hz). I also find that older, antique pianos favor a looser tuning because there is slightly less tension over the entire piano body. // Another note is that old antique pianos that have their original strings, those strings have higher chance of snapping. Modern strings are made to be slightly elastic to avoid this. (And this is another good reason to tune to A-432 Hz. It helps avoid strings snapping!) My advice to ensure your sting doesn't snap when tightening it: Use the tuning-lever to actually LOOSEN the string slightly first. This will let the wire flex and stretch like a uptight tendon before a Jane Fonda workout. (Ha). After loosening the string, simply proceed with tuning it with the tuning-lever. // Also, for those interested, my theoretical work on music and healing tones, and my Theory of Pitch Psychology, do visit me here on uToob at: The Acoustic Rabbit Hole. - God Bless!!! - The Acoustic Rabbit Hole
I always encourage people to try to tune their own piano. If they’re successful they’ve learned a skill which I love doing but most people will spend 8 hours trying to tune a piano then call me and appreciate what it is I do. Pretty much you’ll spend a couple of hundred dollars so expect that, do NOT expect it to be in tune until you tune it several times. Or you can pay a tech around $175 to service your instrument, I will do a better job, it will be faster and then I stand behind my work. Additionally tuning is only one of the service items that a piano needs. When I service I look for emergent problems, so I take care of the problem before it’s a problem. Best of luck!
It takes 20 minutes for a professional tuner to raise the pitch of a piano. It is often part and parcel of tuning a piano. Why "prepare" a piano for the tuner to fine tune it when it can be "prepared" there and then by someone who understands all the pitfalls...all in one sitting? You have invented a problem that does not exist. You are unnecessarily setting non-tuners up for wrecking their piano. If the piano is garbage to start with then ok. Otherwise, leave well alone. I'd 'tuned' well over a thousand pianos before I could call myself a piano tuner. The same is true for most piano tuners.
Dont do this people. First of all, without proper training you will end up with a broken strings, and if that happen to be a bass string with a copper wiring, good luck finding replacement. Not to mention price of new string and price of instalment. Secondly, the "not wasting time of profesional tuner" part is nonsense as well. Any piano technician/tuner worth their salt can do a pitch adjustment in a very short time, say 30-40 minutes. Then he will repeat the process again. Then he will drink his coffee and take a piss. Then do the proper tuning. All of this in a matter of maybe 3-4 hours. Even if you dont break your string, you will be adjusting the pitch for MANY HOURS. Thirdly, working the tuning pin too much will make it more loose and potentially prone to lose pitch in the long term. Dont experiment with your piano. Unless its a situation where you are deciding to either trash the piano or experiment. In that case, go ahead, replace the strings with a fishing wires or whatever you feel like is a good idea. In ideal situation, profesional will also check all other problems your piano may have and solve them before its too late. Then schedule second tuning in a week or two if really necesarry.
Warning:::It will take hours and hours to get close to a satisfying tuning. An important discrepancy in his presentation is that a professional tuner will actually tune a piano twice in one setting if he/she are tuning it for the 1st time and it is very badly out of tune. The first tuning is a rough tuning, called a pitch raise. The second tuning is a fine tuning. Wa-la! Ready to go, stable, accurate tuning. So, you've spent $65 on tuning hammer and mutes and felt strip. Plus $25 for app he suggests (not an app tuners recommend) = $90.....or $150-$200 for accurate, stable tuning. BUT if you have more time than money, it's a stop gap measure.
I have trouble hearing and counting the beats. So I use Piano meter as a visual guide as a back up to what I’m hearing. It’s excellent. I’ve done courses and tuning for some 25 years. But pianos are notoriously bad at going flat or sharp after you’re done tuning. Be aware of this. A few passes are necessary, even if the pitch raise is 5 cents as mine was… also make sure you do the checks. You must get pleasing sounding 10ths and 17ths.. if you get a wolf then the interval is too wide or narrow.
I don't know if he's going to mention this but don't take your hammer off of the pins. After each string is done and you're ready to move to the next pin, your hammer will serve as a placemark so you know where the "next" string even is. If you remove your hammer, you're lost and have to find your way to the next string. It was a great habit of mine to take the hammer off and then spend time looking for that pin again and it's an open invitation to make mistakes and perhaps be working on the wrong string. Boing! It doesn't sound like he's going to mention the wobble, called beating when the strings are almost at the same pitch. You'll hear it. You can't miss it. As you close in on the right frequency, the wobbling gets slower and finally stops. You'll overshoot it a couple of times and then you'll be an expert. You can get them to behave very easily. Also, temperament is just a cheat to allow you to play a song in any key. You do it by opening or tightening intervals using the A440 as the reference note and listening for beats indicating stretched or compressed intervals. It's how pianos are tuned. Don't ask...yet.
I don’t know what is different between your audio equipment or piano, but compared to the piano tuning videos I’ve watched the past week the overtone when you tune at 13:30 is sooo much clearer.
